National Desktop and Notebook Agreement (NDNA)

Tender description

London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC), a company limited by guarantee, is undertaking this recurrent tendering process on behalf of National Desktop and Notebook Agreement and leads a multi-HE Consortia working party that oversees the procurement of Desktop, Notebook, 2-in-1 Hybrid devices, Tablet and Workstation PCs and attached accessories for the Higher Education sector and associated public sector bodies throughout the UK. LUPC is seeking to establish framework agreements for participating institutions with three or more suppliers across each of the three lots. It is envisaged that these arrangements will commence on 1.8.2022 and will continue for a period of three years with the facility to extend for a further one year subject to agreement between the parties. This requirement automatically covers Full or Associate Members within the higher education regional purchasing consortia as follows: London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC) http://www.lupc.ac.uk/list-of-members.html; Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) http://www.supc.ac.uk/engage/our-members/our-members; North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC) http://www.neupc.ac.uk/our-members; North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium (NWUPC) http://www.nwupc.ac.uk/our-members; Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC) http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/#!/members and Higher Education Purchasing Consortium Wales (HEPCW) http://www.hepcw.ac.uk/members/ Members of the consortia either already are or may be drawn from the Higher Education sector, Further Education sector, the Research Council and other Public and Third Sector bodies principally but not exclusively from the education, arts, sciences and cultural sectors.